Arabic (Original)
حَدَّثَنَا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا شُعْبَةُ عَنْ سُلَيْمَانَ وَأَبُو أَحْمَدَ قَالَ حَدَّثَنَا سُفْيَانُ عَنِ الْأَعْمَشِ عَنْ ذَكْوَانَ عَنِ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ عَنْ النَّبِيِّ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ أَنَّهُ قَالَ لَأَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ جَوْفُ أَحَدِكُمْ قَيْحًا حَتَّى يَرِيَهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَمْتَلِئَ شِعْرًا.
English Translation
Muhammad ibn Ja'far told us: Shu'bah told us, from Sulayman; and Abu Ahmad told us: Sufyan told us, from al-A'mash, from Dhakwan, from Abu Hurayrah, from the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), that he said: "That the belly of one of you be filled with pus until it consumes him is better for him than that it be filled with poetry."